The Education Department today said that clubbing of schools is an ongoing process aimed at ensuring quality education to the students by making best possible use of the available resources.“Clubbing of Government Girls High School City Chowk and Government Girls High School Dogra Hall Jammu is a part of the same process,” Director School Education Jammu, Babila Rakwal said in a statement.She said the clubbing of these two schools is in no way going to affect the studies of the students since the students will be taught by the same teachers and thereby maintaining the continuity. “Also sufficient teachers will be available to run the remedial classes/evening classes thereby benefitting the students of 9th and 10th classes of both the schools,” she said and added that the students have also the option to going to Central Basic, HSS, Purani Mandi Jammu or any other school in the vicinity.The Director Education said that as per the records there are only 134 students enrolled in Government Girls High School Dogra Hall with 22 teachers while there are 208 students enrolled Government Girls High School City Chowk with 33 teachers.
She said given the disproportionate teacher: pupil ratio, the government decided that from the next year, the classes of 9th and 10th of GGHS Dogra Hall shall be shifted to Government Sri Ranbir Memorial Higher Secondary School, Jammu and the Government Girls High School, Dogra hall will be converted to that of a Model Elementary School while the surplus teaching staff shall be rationalized and deployed in the peripheral school where there is acute shortage.She said the recommendations were made by a Committee of officers headed by DSEK and comprising Chief Education Officer, Jammu, Deputy CEO, Jammu, Principal, SRML, HSS, Jammu who is also the cluster head of Government Girls HS Dogra Hall, GGHS City Chowk, HS Kachi Chawni and MS Tangewali Gali, Headmaster, GGHS City Chowk and Senior Teacher incharge of GGHS Dogra Hall.The Committee visited the school along with the staff and recommended that shifting of students from Government Girls High School City Chowk will ensure increase in class strength to a more optimum level.Pertinently, the Education Department has already brought around 3000 schools in the State under rationalization process with 331 such schools having been co-located in Jammu district.